Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 12:41:00 +0000 From: "Frank Shute" <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sd=E4vtaker?= <sdavtaker@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems using ls with for_in (SH) Message-ID: <20071109124100.GA22571@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4733CAB4.2080508@gmail.com> References: <4733CAB4.2080508@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:49:24PM -0300, Sdvtaker wrote:
>
> Im trying to get a file with all the md5 hashes of one directory.
> My initial script was this:
> #!/bin/sh
> for file in $(ls)
> do
> echo $file
> md5 $file
> done
>
> The problem is with the file names who contains "whitespaces" becouse
> the for_in passed each word as one iteration and not the full filename,
> I'd tried using -B in ls, but doesnt help.
> Any idea what can i do?
> Thanks!
> Sdäv
You could use "find" which avoids the subdirs:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print -exec md5 {} \;
--
Frank
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